Love Poet: Neo-Latent

                                   

                                    Putting pennies on a railway line

                        got a bigger thinner penny

                                                molded to the rail

                        made a necklace I love you

            an ivory necklace so white

                        & so white

your smile & chimerical

            grottoes & pearl light ending the night

            O all your lures

of mind & matter but nothing reward           

            as your loose pile of flesh

                        so modern & complex

            on along the stone is rolling

leaving phrases flattened on the tar

            macadam

            at this spot said             I am

                        (an orange, falling

                                    purple, green & vivid black)

            here I said            I live

                        I lie            I lay             I loll

tension:            champagne & cork

            I have no money

                        echoes from the vault

                                    the stone rolls back

leave the sepulchre

            come to America

                        where going each day to the

                                    abominable office of foxy & poxy...

            statisticians

make a fortune

            a white cardboard sky

                        trimmed perfectly to match the jagged horizon

made love in the kitchen

            a metronome ticking

                        you make up good stories

                                                she said

Dick Russell

(from Wolfprints)